Walsworth Yearbooks

Neon yellow accents the same blue watercolor-like picture of the school on the opening spread of the 2010 Legend. The design theme remains consistent with cutout photos of students participating in spirit activities. These photos help the Legend staff capture the spirit of students at Boone High beginning with this first spread.

The stories the staff chose to tell also focus on students who are living “VIBRANT” lives. This sports spread is typical of a coverage spread in the 2010 Legend. A traditional design plan has been accented with contemporary font treatments and two forms of alternative coverage. The photo treatment on the quote collection adds interest and color to this spread and ties the design into the book’s theme, “VIBRANT.” Accent photos in the scoreboard also employ an interesting graphic technique that adds dimension and interest to this spread.

The section dividers each feature one bright color and several black and white photos of students with cutout backgrounds. This consistent design plan helps readers recognize these spreads as division pages.

The headlines on dividers highlight things that made the content of the section “VIBRANT.” On this academics divider, for example, the headline, “Activities add variety,” takes note of the activities teachers had students do to make learning fun.

The last word of each section divider’s copy is the spin-off title for that section. When the section titles are taken together, the first letter of each spells out the theme word: “VIBRANT.” The spin-off titles are, in order: Vigorous (sports), Intelligent (academics), Bright (student life), Realistic (issues), Animated (people), Noble (clubs) and Tenacious (community). This subtle touch is just one more way the 2010 Legend staff wove its theme throughout this yearbook.

Several stories throughout the 2010 Legend are presented in an alternative format. This spread tells three separate but related stories. First, quick profiles of four students are paired with a map that shows where each student spends time during the school day. This is a great record of what life was really like at Boone High in 2009-2010 because it reminds students about their time in the halls as they navigated from class to class. This story is paired with a profile of a student who uses a rolling backpack and a photo collection that shows one desk in one classroom during each hour of the day.

These mini-stories allowed the Legend staff to include 11 students on one spread in a format that is easy to read and provides interesting information.

In the “issues” section, the staff tackled stories about pharmaceutical drug abuse, students who come out to their families as gay or lesbian while in high school, smoking and sexual abuse. These stories are all handled with tact and by using anonymous sources and a lot of statistics. It is clear that the Legend staff wanted to cover issues they felt had an impact on students at their school without exploiting the students in question.

To set this section apart from the rest of the book, the staff chose to use muted tones of the “VIBRANT” colors presented throughout the book. This decision seems appropriate, especially considering that these spreads do not have photos and must rely on the watercolor-style illustrations seen elsewhere in the book.